History & Criticism
mobi |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:David Thomson

From about 1950 onward, the first generation of picture people began to die. By then, many of them were what was called old-fashioned. But they had invented a medium and ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Cary Elwes & Joe Layden [Elwes, Cary]

“Don’t get too comfy,” he’d say with a twinkle in his eye. The training never stopped. Even on my days off I would rehearse with Bob at the Hallam Tower ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-19 | Author:Petrine Day Mitchum & Audrey Pavia [Mitchum, Petrine Day & Pavia, Audrey]

Cinematographer Roger Deakins focuses on actress Hailee Steinfeld as she swims the river on a mechanical horse in the Coen brothers’ version of True Grit. Cut to: Hailee Steinfeld’s stunt ...
( Category: Reference October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Anne Helen Petersen [Petersen, Anne Helen]

VOLUME FIVE BROKEN BY THE SYSTEM At the peak of the studio system, Hollywood stardom was engineered to be every girl’s fantasy: the glamour, the clothes, the handsome costars. And ...
( Category: State & Local October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Victoria Sutton [Sutton, Victoria]

The laboratory accident is caused by a disgruntled employee, Joseph Muller, who has been laid off, putting pressure on his ability to pay alimony, a condition of his visitation of ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Biskind

Nine: The Revenge of the Nerd 1975 • How Steven Spielberg’s Jaws made the world safe for blockbusters, BBS enjoyed its last hurrah, while Bogdanovich’s bubble burst, and Paramount and ...
( Category: Direction & Production September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-02-03 | Author:Staggs, Sam

chapter 18 “Funny How Gentle People Get with You Once You’re Dead” We last saw William Holden floating not in Norma Desmond’s pool but rather in a pool of vitriol ...
( Category: Direction & Production September 6,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Epstein, Dwayne [Epstein, Dwayne]

CHAPTER 11 “I Ain’t Spittin’ on My Whole Life” AMERICAN FILMS of the late 60s and early 70s emphasized themes of sexuality, violence and realism more intensely than ever before. ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-04-09 | Author:Josef Steiff & Tristan D. Tamplin

Tsuyoku Naritai (I Want to Become Stronger) One of the basic principles of Smith’s theory is that the extent to which we can compete (and improve) is related to how ...
( Category: Shows August 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Blackburn, Lyle [Blackburn, Lyle]

1981: The creature is seen near the Sutton family pond in Jonesville. With that, the Suttons trekked through the darkness back to the house and spent the rest of the ...
( Category: Primatology August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-13 | Author:Joseph McBride [Joseph McBride]

WHEN Rod Serling sold the syndication rights to his Twilight Zone series—a decision he later regretted, since the show has never stopped running—he kept the right to make a feature ...
( Category: Direction & Production August 14,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Davis, Warwick [Davis, Warwick]

Our decision to try again was by no means taken lightly. I worried that the risk of becoming attached to another baby might have been too much to bear. I ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Shawn Levy [Levy, Shawn]

You start with the name, an impossible encumbrance: Rupert Pupkin. “Often misspelled and mispronounced,” he repeatedly says, and before long we hear “Pipkin” and “Pumpkin” and “Pupnik.” There is the ...
( Category: Biographies July 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin [Bordwell, David]

7.19 The sadness of the ending is undercut by the lilting whirlwind waltz. Dimensions of Film Sound We’ve seen what sounds consist of and how the filmmaker can take advantage ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies July 17,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Mogk, Matt [Mogk, Matt]

On that same program, just two days after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, Jerry Falwell blamed the tragedy not on the foreign hijackers or distant terrorist masterminds but ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 6,2014 )